Patrick joined The Ben Kinsella Trust in 2016 from Victim Support where he had been Deputy Director for London. The Ben Kinsella Trust was founded by Brooke Kinsella MBE and her family following the murder of her brother Ben in an unprovoked knife attack in 2008. The Ben Kinsella Trust campaigns for justice and action for those affected by knife crime and delivers choices and consequences anti-knife educational workshops to schools and youth groups from its sites in Islington and Barking & Dagenham in London and at the National Justice Museum in Nottingham. The Trust’s exhibition and its workshops are visited by over 4,000 young people every year. A further 20,000 young people use the Trust’s online resources each year.

As the CEO, Patrick has grown The Ben Kinsella Trust from its roots in Islington, North London, to one of the country’s leading anti-knife crime charities. He is a regular contributor on TV and in the press campaigning for the adoption of a public health approach to tackling youth violence.

Patrick was a member of the Home Office’s Serious Violence Crime Taskforce, which was chaired by the Home Secretary and the Home Office’s Social Media Action Group. In April 2019, Patrick was invited to No.10 by the Prime Minister as a member of the Serious Youth Violence Summit.

Eleanor Baggaley is a senior UK Home Office leader with extensive experience across crime prevention, knife crime policy, drugs legislation, and international serious and organised crime. Before her current role, she led Home Office programmes addressing serious violence, developing new cross‑government approaches to knife crime prevention and community safety.

Eleanor holds an MSc in the Anthropology of Politics, Violence and Crime from UCL. 

Stephen Clayman is a Commander in the Metropolitan Police Service within the Professionalism Command and is the current National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) lead for tackling knife related crime, working closely with law enforcement and partners across England & Wales, along with the Home Office. He has recently picked up the NPCC Portfolio for Corrosive Substances.

He coordinates the work of the National Knife Crime Working Group, underpinned by an ongoing 4P plan. In autumn 2024, he was appointed by the Home Secretary to undertake an end-to-end review of online knife sales. In January 2025, his final report was published, detailing a number of recommendations to government. Two of these recommendations are already being included the Crime & Policing Bill, with the remainder being picked up for further consultation and scoping for potential further policy, practice and legislative changes.

He has spent most of his career as a detective, undertaking senior roles across both local policing and specialist crime, graduating from the Strategic Command Course in 2021.

He is the current Gold Commander for Operation Olympos (Post Office Horizon criminal investigation), which is now set up on a national basis given its scope and impact, with four regional teams across England & Wales.

More recently, he was Commander for Central Specialist Crime, which tackles Serious & Organised Crime relating to tackling online child sex abuse, cybercrime, fraud & illicit finance, modern slavery & exploitation, complex and high profile investigations, cold case homicide and the Met’s Flying Squad.

In 2009, he graduated from the University of Cambridge with a Master’s degree in Applied Criminology & Police Management, where he subsequently published his research findings on reluctant witnesses. He is also a fellow of both the Forward Institute Programme and Westminster Abbey Institute.

Faron Alex Paul has been collecting knives and firearms as part of an amnesty since 2019. Hear about the relationship he has built with the London Metropolitan Police, the importance of community driven work to tackle serious youth violence, and what else needs to be done. Faron himself knows first-hand how dangerous youth violence is and has shown that community driven efforts to tackle serious violence can have a long-running impact on community safety.

Lib Peck is the Director of the Mayor of London’s Violence Reduction Unit.

Prior to that Lib was the elected leader of Lambeth Council for six years, setting the strategic and political direction for the borough. During her leadership, she prioritised Lambeth’s pioneering work on challenging violence against women and girls and supported the development of a public health approach towards violence.

As a London leader, Lib was the deputy chair for London Councils, a body representing all London Councils, and led on Crime and Public Protection. She was also the deputy labour leader of the Local Government Association. Lib was a councillor for 18 years before stepping down to take up her role as Director of the VRU.

Daniel Morris is an established senior leader in the charity sector with over 15 years’ experience of delivering services to children and young people.

Starting his career in youth work, Daniel has always been driven by a passion to amplify the experiences of children and young people. In particular supporting and advocating for underrepresented young people living in deprived communities. As a reputable leader in the field, Daniel is a Clore fellow in youth leadership in the charity sector.

Previously, Daniel established a renowned Pan-London Harmful Sexual Behaviour programme, and supported service design for a national charity across several programmes of work; this includes homicide, domestic abuse and peer support services.

Daniel’s current portfolio includes A National County Lines services and Exploitation services across Merseyside, Stoke & Staffordshire and Kent.

Daniel is extremely passionate about race equality, which is evident in all aspects of his practice and research.

Patrick joined The Ben Kinsella Trust in 2016 from Victim Support where he had been Deputy Director for London. The Ben Kinsella Trust was founded by Brooke Kinsella MBE and her family following the murder of her brother Ben in an unprovoked knife attack in 2008. The Ben Kinsella Trust campaigns for justice and action for those affected by knife crime and delivers choices and consequences anti-knife educational workshops to schools and youth groups from its sites in Islington and Barking & Dagenham in London and at the National Justice Museum in Nottingham. The Trust’s exhibition and its workshops are visited by over 4,000 young people every year. A further 20,000 young people use the Trust’s online resources each year.

As the CEO, Patrick has grown The Ben Kinsella Trust from its roots in Islington, North London, to one of the country’s leading anti-knife crime charities. He is a regular contributor on TV and in the press campaigning for the adoption of a public health approach to tackling youth violence.

Patrick was a member of the Home Office’s Serious Violence Crime Taskforce, which was chaired by the Home Secretary and the Home Office’s Social Media Action Group. In April 2019, Patrick was invited to No.10 by the Prime Minister as a member of the Serious Youth Violence Summit.